“Today there were 5,672 people in the jails. One year ago, there were 3,880 people in the jails. This is a 46% increase in the population [and] that’s inconsistent with the notion that the department is working toward decreasing the population when it increases that almost 50% in one year,” he added, referring to when the inmate population dropped due to coronavirus-driven releases.

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